please make me king

Chapter 1148 Fundraising
"My minister sees the empress!" The patriarch Zhou Kui saluted his daughter, Empress Zhou, politely.

Today's Empress Zhou wears a Yanju crown, a big yellow shirt, and a deep green xiapei. She behaves dignifiedly and generously. She is really the lord of the harem.

"Freedom of courtesy!" Empress Zhou resisted her excitement and raised her hand falsely.

The Tian family is ruthless. Although Zhou Kui is the queen's biological father, since the queen married Xin Wang, the two monarchs and ministers are different, and they cannot practice family etiquette.

The two of them hadn't seen each other for a long time, so they made some polite remarks and chatted for a while.

Empress Zhou then said seriously: "Nowadays, Daming is troubled both internally and externally, making ends meet, suppressing bandits without pay, soldiers without food, and the country is at stake."

"Nowadays, taxation is difficult and food prices are soaring. The imperial court is really unable to continue."

"The ancients said: If the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, if one day is overthrown, not to mention the Tianjia, but ordinary people, who can escape?"

"Now Your Majesty would like to ask all the ministers and clans to donate money to the military..."

Empress Zhou's words were full of meaning and emotion, and when she was talking about it, her old father Zhou Kui sneered and said, "My son, how can you coax me?"

"I've heard that Lord Wanli has left a huge fortune to his descendants. There may be tens of millions of taels of gold and silver in the money."

"In addition to this, several million taels were borrowed from the outer court, and they were not returned. How could there be a shortage of food and wages?"

"Now that you are the mother of a country, don't you persuade him to be magnanimous and behave generously, but instead calculate the property of your subordinates?"

"Father!" Queen Zhou almost cried out of anger when she heard this.

The Emperor Chongzhen really had so much silver under his hands, how could he, a man of great face, be willing to give up the old face of the emperor and solicit donations from his officials?

If it were someone else, she would have been dragged out and punished long ago.

Now the person who said this is my own father, the broken bones are still connected, so I have to suppress the unhappiness, how can I be punished?

"Okay, okay, I will stop talking!" Zhou Kui said in a bad mood, "You know our family background, yesterday I wasted money to raise five thousand taels and donated it all, what do you have to say? Want to say?"

In the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent foreign relatives from intervening in politics, the queens, concubines and concubines were all born in small families and did not have much assets.

When Queen Zhou saw that her father had donated so much silver, she had nothing to say for a while.

She had no choice but to ponder for a moment, and ordered the maid to take out her private money, and handed it to the father of the country, Zhou Kui, and said: "Our family is the world, and our family is a relative of the emperor. We will lose and we will prosper."

"Now His Majesty is short of money to recruit troops and horses, so he can help as much as he can."

"Here is the five thousand taels I sold some gold and silver jewelry in private. If you donate it to the court meeting tomorrow morning, you will make up for ten thousand taels. Your majesty must look better!"

"Okay...Okay, then this humble minister will suffer!" Zhou Kui rolled his eyes, and couldn't help but respond with his hand.

Poor Empress Zhou didn't know that before she entered the palace, her family was naturally a small family.

But after she entered the palace, the Zhou family became the nobles of the Ming Dynasty.

His father, Zhou Kui, was conferred the title of Jiading Bo, and in just a few years, he made a lot of money and accumulated a huge family business.

Let alone five thousand taels now, what is it worth even fifty thousand taels?
Queen Zhou also said that her father, Zhou Kui, understood righteousness. After she and her father discussed the matter, they quickly sent someone to inform the emperor Zhu Youjian so that he could act in court.

When Zhu Youjian learned of this, he was excited and moved, and he couldn't help but sigh: "I have such a wife, what more can a husband ask for!"

In the early morning of the next day, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian had his father, Zhou Kui, as his base, and he felt a little hopeful in his heart.

"Nowadays, the country's affairs are difficult, there are no soldiers and no pay, and the country is at stake. Which love is willing to donate some silver taels, and I will remember it in my heart!" Zhu Youjian couldn't help asking again with a face down.

Seeing that today's sage shouted three times in a row, there were more than two thousand courtiers and honorable officials, but no one responded.

The head of the state, Zhou Kui, hurriedly stepped forward and said, "I would like to donate another three thousand taels to fund the country!"

"How much?" Zhu Youjian suspected that his ears had misheard the number.

"I voluntarily donated another three thousand taels..." Zhou Kui repeated.

Nima!

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, and then he was dragged out and chopped up!
You are really my good father-in-law. You even stole two thousand taels of jewelry from your daughter Dian!

"Okay, good, good! The head of the country really understands righteousness, everyone must follow... the head of the country!" Zhu Youjian couldn't help gritting his teeth.

When the other people heard the words of Zhou Kui, the head of the state, they suddenly understood, and they all shouted:
"My minister donated five hundred taels!"

"I would like to donate two hundred taels!"

"I donate another fifty taels!"

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For a while, the hall was as lively as the vegetable market, but Chongzhen didn't want to listen anymore.

A massive fundraising campaign was over, and Emperor Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty raised a total of [-] taels of silver.

"Hehe, hehe, are they using me as a beggar?" Chongzhen was furious, and was about to drop the teacup in his hand, but suddenly remembered that this seems to be worth a few taels of silver, and couldn't help but give up put it down.

"Your Majesty, the Taichang Shaoqing Xue Guoguan is asking to see you!" Wang Chengen couldn't bear to look at the current Holy Majesty, and asked for instructions sternly.

"What is he here for?" Chongzhen recalled that he seemed to have donated only nine hundred taels, and asked quite dissatisfied.

"The slave just sent him away." Wang Chengen said knowingly after hearing the words.

"Forget it, let him come in first." Chongzhen thought for a while and stopped Wang Chengen.

National affairs, I can not be impulsive!

"Chen Xue Guoguan, pay homage to Your Majesty!" Not long after, Xue Guoguan rushed over under the guidance of a young eunuch.

"Let's get back together, I don't know if Xue Aiqing wants to see me?" Chongzhen said unhappily.

"Your Majesty, this subject is about fundraising!" Xue Guoguan heard the words.

"Oh? If you come to dissuade me, then don't open your mouth!" Chongzhen sneered.

"No, I'm here to offer suggestions to His Majesty!" Xue Guoguan wiped away his tears and said.

"My hometown, Hancheng, was oppressed by the bandits, and my family property was almost plundered by the bandits. I suffered a lot from it, so I couldn't help but help Your Majesty!"

"Oh? How do you say this?" Chongzhen realized that he had misunderstood him when he heard this, so he couldn't help asking seriously.

"Your Majesty spends his days sleeping and worrying about state affairs, but he doesn't want to deceive his superiors and his subordinates, so he won't get anything out of him!" Xue Guoguan couldn't help admonishing him.

"If your Majesty wants to raise military pay, he must kill the chickens to make an example to the monkeys!"

"How do you kill chickens to scare monkeys?" Chongzhen was stunned when he heard the words, and couldn't help asking.

"Li Guochen, the concubine brother of the Marquis of Wuqing, once told his ministers that his father's property is [-] taels, and he should get half of it. Now he is asking for it to be used for national use!"

"How...how is this possible?" Chongzhen couldn't help being surprised when he heard the words, "How can Marquis Wuqing have so many family properties?"

The current Marquis Wuqing is the grandson of Empress Dowager Xiaoding's elder brother, and Empress Dowager Xiaoding Li is the biological mother of Emperor Shenzong.

If we talk about it, Empress Dowager Xiaoding is still Zhu Youjian's great-grandmother.

But the Tian family is ruthless, don't say anything about grandma's relatives, even brothers are still killing each other, how can there be any family affection?
It's just that a nobleman like Marquis Wuqing, how could he accumulate so much silver taels?
"If Your Majesty refuses to believe it, I can secretly bring Li Guochen here, and ask Your Majesty to interrogate him personally!" Xue Guoguan couldn't help but promise.

"As long as His Majesty opens this gap, then everything will be easy."

"When the time comes, His Majesty will be in charge of the royal family and relatives, and the officials and workers outside will be in charge of humble ministers. We will surely be able to raise enough money to wipe out bandits and captives!"

(End of this chapter)